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Welcome to the NBA Daily Ding here on the Athletic NBA

NBA show. I'm Jared Weiss. I'm joined by Mo DeKeele.

Andrew Schleck is our producer today. There are no games

as of last night. So we're going to talk about the games coming up

over the weekend while we wait for the next day on Monday morning.

So we're going to start. We're just going to go in order here. So let's

start with Miami. They're heading back to Philadelphia. They're up 2-0. The series has not been

that close so far. Kyle Lowry has upgraded the questionable. Joel Embed is ruled out, at least for

now, because he's in the concussion protocol, so I guess he can't be real doubtful.

But there was also that report that he couldn't even read the things on his phone yesterday. So how the hell is he going to play in the NBA two days after that? But so who do you think he's even going to play in this game? And what do you think is going to happen for Philly's chances to try to make this a series? I mean, it's such a slim, slim chance for Philly to make this just a game.

Forget making it a series. I mean, it's such a slim, slim chance for Philly to make this just a game. Forget making it a series, Jared. Just make one of these a game. And I think it's going to have to be just incredibly hot shooting. I mean, they're going to need everybody rolling. It's going to be Tyrese maxi who dropped 30 in game two, but he's got to be on like another level. Tobias Harris has got to step up and obviously the guy we really need to see get going is james hardin right like he needs to show

he can be old james hardin i just don't know if he could do that Jared i miss the old conier i miss the

old james he was six for 15 in game two. He had nine times at least, but like,

yeah, it was Tyrese was one gear in the offense. And they shot eight for 30 from three. Tobias was the only person at multiple threes? Oh, no, Cork, Boz was two for four. But Danny Green one for nine, Maxie one for four, Hardin, one for five. It's like, how do you win a series as an underdog when three of your key shooters can't even shoot.

Yeah, I mean, they're, I mean, they're just under so much duress

in terms of lineups. Look, they're, they have maybe six guys. Nyang's dealing a little bit

with a couple of nagging injuries and stuff like that, but like it's about it. Everybody else in that series is really outmatched for the sixers it's it's challenging it's an uphill battle i really think miami should be able to just win these games pretty handily even in philly yeah and and jimmy beller was just so good in last game bam out of bio i feel like he's really founding rhythm here. I mean, is Miami, Miami's really dominating this series right now. Is Miami looking like their title, like a major even title contender with the other teams that have been getting a lot of the credit for being that? Yes and no. I mean, look, they're doing the job they're supposed to, but they haven't really faced great opponents.

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